Monte Mare

monte mare Rheinbach is one location of the monte mare chain, at Münstereifeler Straße 69, 53359 Rheinbach, south-west of Bonn. It combines four separately timed areas: a sport and leisure bath, a sauna and wellness resort, an indoor diving centre and a heated open-air pool.

The indoor bathing hall holds a 25-metre sports pool, a shallow teaching pool used for swimming lessons and aqua gymnastics, a wave pool, a massage pool, a baby pool, a whirlpool and an outdoor pool. The operator gives the water temperatures pool by pool: sports pool 28.0 °C, teaching pool 33.0 °C, massage pool 33.0 °C, baby pool 33.0 °C, wave pool 30.0 °C, outdoor pool 29.0 °C and whirlpool 34.0 °C, with air temperature throughout the hall around 31 °C. There is a slide tower; the operator neither names nor measures its individual slides. The water is ordinary heated pool water: the operator claims no thermal spring, borehole or brine pool; the only brine on site is inhaled, in a salt world with brine inhalation inside the sauna area.

The sauna resort covers a wellness house of over 1,000 m² on two floors plus a 3,000 m² sauna garden with terraced lawns, a stream and an outdoor pool with bubble and massage loungers. The operator enumerates eight heat rooms without giving a total: the Theatersauna at 80 °C on about 60 m² with light, mist, sound and moving images; a low-temperature parlour sauna at 65–70 °C; a Mentalsauna at 55–60 °C with colour and scent effects; an infrared sauna at about 50 °C; a steam bath at 35–40 °C with 100 % relative humidity; and in the garden a Gartensauna of polar pine at 80–85 °C seating up to 200 people, a Teichsauna of 500-year-old Kelo pine at 80–85 °C beside a pond, and an Erdsauna at 90–95 °C set partly into an earth bank, reaching up to 110 °C under the ceiling. Water temperatures in the sauna area are given as 28 °C indoor and outdoor pools, 13–15 °C cold plunge and 36 °C whirlpools. Also here are a herb lounge with herb steam ovens, Kneipp treading basins, an oriental water-pipe house, rest and sleeping rooms, a sauna restaurant, a solarium and a hamam offering treatments.

The indoor diving centre is a separate ticketed area with SSI courses, freediving and equipment hire. The heated open-air pool offers nearly 1,000 m² of water with a 50-metre pool, a diving pool with 1-, 3- and 5-metre boards, more than 7,000 m² of lawn, a toddler pool with a slide and a sand playground. The open-air pool opens only in the summer season.

Opening hours are sauna and wellness Monday to Thursday 09:30–22:30, Friday 09:30–23:30, Saturday 09:30–22:30 and Sunday 09:30–20:00; the sport and leisure bath daily 10:00–19:00; the diving centre Monday to Saturday 10:00–22:00 and Sunday 10:00–20:00. Bathing ends 30 minutes before closing.